At 07:40 AM 1/31/2012, Gerald Waugh wrote: >Ralf Quint wrote: > > At 05:48 AM 1/31/2012, Michael Stauber wrote: > >> According to RFC-952 the first character of a host- or > domain-name may not be > >> a number, dash or hyphen. It must be a letter. > >> > >> See: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc952 > >> > >> Hence BlueOnyx doesn't allow a naming convention where a host- > or domain-name > >> starts with a number. > >> > >> However, in recent years domain name registries have allowed certain RFC > >> violating domain names (9gag.com anyone? ;-), so this RFC may have been > >> overtaken by events or bad practices somewhere upstream. > > > > 3com.com exists per WhoIs since 1986 (though it redirects now to an > > HP site, since they bought 3COM in 2010), so there can't be any > > change in "recent" years on that... > > > >3com.com is not a 'host' name, its a domain name ;)
Please see the quoted part of Michael's post. He clearly refers to "domain" names! Ralf _______________________________________________ Blueonyx mailing list [email protected] http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx
